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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New changes in electronic education technology have enabled students all over the world to participate in courses online. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that distance learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is good? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle issues like poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a growing demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Students want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive demand for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also explores the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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